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Ukraine's plight paints a bleak vision of Europe's future

12 February 2022

3:02 AM

12 February 2022

3:02 AM

It is tempting to view Vladimir Putin as a Cold War relic: a former KGB officer who hasn’t got over the fall of the Soviet Union, which he called the ‘greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.’ But, as I say in the Times today, what is happening on Ukraine’s border isn’t a throwback to the Cold War.

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